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  • What Ai wanna noze, Haow dat Troll noze whar Ur butes iz at?

    NOM - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Mite nede sum speshul grene butes fur dat kined ub jawb.

    No room for you in our spa - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Timaeus, there is an initial phase of a “primordial chaos,” in which there is no ready-made space as yet, but only a space in the making, and the structure of this space unfolds not by itself but conjointly with the structure of matter, energy, and other physical attri - butes.

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • Spinoza made extension and thought no longer two substances but two attri - butes of the one substance God.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SIMONE P 1968

  • JOHN is more of a success at C.ngress hauls, Saratogy, than he is at the Halls of C.ngress, Washington, D.C. When other members git on their high-heeled butes at Washington, debatin 'about the admishun of another State, JOHN'S voice is silent.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

  • These is all the butes Willy will half to Krissmus.

    The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Whin he slipped in one of the shaats of paper, wid hundreds of little kriss-kross holes through it, sot down on the stule and wobbled his butes, and 'Killarney' filled the room, I let out a hoop, kicked off me satan slippers, danced a jig and shouted, 'For the love of Mike!' which the same is thrue, that being yer name.

    The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • The cattle are that wild this time o 'year, huntin' water, and hangin 'round the tules, that my men are nigh worrited out o' their butes with 'em.

    Cressy Bret Harte 1869

  • He did not take kindly to this, and said: "Consarn these store butes, Cap.; they choke my feet like h--- l."

    The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

  • I wad raither clean my leddie's butes frae mornin 'to nicht, nor be the son o' that wuman, gien she war

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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